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Owen, Samuel Joseph – Oxenbridge, John

Owen, Samuel Joseph

farmer, journalist, was born Dec. 30, 1867, near Blue Mountain, Miss. He is a successful farmer and editor and publisher of The Southern Sentinel of Ripley, Miss. He has filled various offices of trust in his county and state; and is prominent in religious affairs. was

Owen, William D

clergyman, congressman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1846, in Bloomington, Ind. He entered the ministry of the Christian church, and removed to Logansport in 1881. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican. He was engaged in literary pursuits, being the author, among other writings, of Success in Life; and The Genius of Industry.

Owen, William Miller

soldier, author, was born Jan. 10, 1832, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the confederate army with the Washington artillery of New Orleans. In 1890 he assisted Mrs.

Jefferson Davis in the preparation of the military chapters of her Memoir of her husband. He is the author of In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery. He died Jan. 10,1893, in New Orleans.

Owens, Mrs. Frances E

educator, journalist, author, was born May 4, 1843, in Sidney, N. Y. She taught for eight years in the Chicago public schools. She is the author of Mrs. Owens's Cook Book, which has had an extensive sale in the United States. She is also the author of a very comprehensive Household Manual; and is the associate editor of The Chef, a culinary magazine of Chicago.

Owens, George W

lawyer, congressman. He was a prominent member of the Georgia bar; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1839. He died in 1856, in Savannah.

Owens, James W

soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1837, in Springfield township, Ind. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Licking county in 1867, and re-elected in 1869. He was elected to the Ohio senate in 1875, and re-elected in 1877, and was elected president of the senate. He was elected to the fifty-first, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Owens, William A

lawyer, was born Feb. 4, 1862, in Well Spring, Tenn.

He attended the best schools; was admitted to the bar, and has attained success as an able lawyer in Tazewell, Tenn.

Owens, William Claiborne

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1849, in Scott county, Ky. He was elected county attorney for Scott county in 1874, and resigned in 1877. He served five terms in the Kentucky legislature, one term as speaker of the house of representatives. He was democratic elector in 1880 and delegate from the state at large to the Chicago convention in 1892.

He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

Owsley, Bryan Y

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.

Owsley, William

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born in 1782, in Virginia. He represented Garrard county for several years ears in the Kentucky legislature; and was judge of the supreme court of the state from 1812 to 1828. He removed to Boyle county in 1843; and was governor of Kentucky from 1844 to 1848. He died in December, 1862, in Danville, Ky.

Oxenbridge, John

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 30, 1609, in England. He was a popular preacher, and published The Duty of Watchfulness; Election Sermon; Seasonable Seeking of God; and Proposition for Propagating the Gospel by Christian Colonies in Guiana. He died Dec. 28, 1674, in Boston, Mass.